The appeals court ruling to confirm the convictions and custodial sentences against the backers of The Pirate Bay could lead to more file sharers being imprisoned, according to a Swedish copyright law prosecutor. The crime of file sharing is currently punished by fines or conditional sentences according to Swedish law, but the court ruling could…
Category: Court
Ca: Supreme Court allows police access to personal consumer information
Alan Shanoff has this editorial about a recent ruling that a consumer had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his electricity consumption data: … The question for the Supreme Court of Canada was simple: Should police have obtained prior judicial authorization allowing it to obtain data on Gomboc’s energy consumption. The answer to this question turns…
ARL/ALA Say No to Personal Privacy Rights for Corporations in FOIA Case
Josh Hadro writes: Usually it’s the library organizations fighting tooth and nail for personal privacy protections. But when a company like AT&T is the one arguing for privacy protections against Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, traditional roles get a bit more complicated. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the American Library Association (ALA)…
Google admits trespassing in Pa., pays couple $1
As a follow-up to a lawsuit filed several years by a Pennsylvania couple who claimed Google trespassed on their property in taking pictures for Street View, Joe Mandak of AP reports: Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay…